Along with active learning, I love how collaborative challenges like this get our learners to talk about their thinking. The think-aloud process is a great way to hear a glimpse into the way our students think especially when making and problem-solving. Check out these participants that wanted to build a bridge across tables and joked about making fire with tissue paper as something their LEGO minifigure had to avoid when crossing a bridge!

Another fun aspect of this workshop is that we asked our learners to find a way to share their work through video. So some of them made time-lapse videos while others created videos with the Boomerang app.

Leftovers

I found out about some really cool timeline and story-mapping applications by Knightlab in a session called “Leftovers with Leslie.”

Timeline JS -Check out the Women in Computing timeline. These would be great for instruction or student work!

Storymaps is super cool too! It allows you to tell stories with maps, so I think social studies’ teachers would find it particularly intriguing. It lets you tell stories based on where the events took place across a map.

Soundcite – another great tool from Knightlab. You can embed SOUNDS in your writing! (#mindblown)